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Thematic html5 plugin

Description

This plugin will convert the markup of themes based on the Thematic theme framework to use html5 elements. Requires Thematic 1.0 or later. New filters were introduced in Thematic 1.0.2 that optimizes the use of this plugin, but it will work with Thematic 1.0 as well using an output buffer.

It uses the built in filters of Thematic to change the markup in desired places. If you are using any childtheme_override_* functions they will still work, and will override this plugin’s loops as well. You will then need to make sure that your override loops uses html5 yourself.

The markup changes are:

doctype changed to <!doctype html>

conditional comment classes from html5boilerplate are added to the opening <html> tag

widget areas are <aside> elements, with individual widgets as <section> elements. The widget title is <h1>

#footer uses <footer> element

The plugin will also add a html5shiv javascript so the new elements will work with older IE browsers. It tries to be detect if any other script has been enqueued, like modernizr, and will only add the script if necessary.

The plugin is intentionally very bare bones, no settings or checkboxes, just activate and go. Ideas, bug reports and general feature requests are welcome at the github issue tracker.

Installation

Upload the plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory

Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

That’s it! No step three! You can verify that your site is using html5 elements with developer tools in chrome or firebug for firefox or similar.

Contributors & Developers

“Thematic html5 plugin” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.